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Decimate 15:08 - Apr 25 with 656 viewsProfessor

A word being bandied around a lot at the moment. In its 'modern' sense we take it to be the removal or destruction of a large proportion of something. Yet its Latin derivation relates to one in ten-usually the execution of every tenth person involved in rebellion or mutiny. Both are correct but I hope that a team decimated by injuries or labour being decimated at the next election are just in the modern sense.

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Decimate on 15:30 - Apr 25 with 617 viewswaynekerr55

Ut sensus meus?

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Decimate on 17:26 - Apr 25 with 568 viewsjack2jack

1/10th of a friend
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